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Just when you thought you couldn't be shocked by the NSA's snooping anymore, new leaked documents show the agency's reach extends far beyond American borders. According to files obtained by <i>The Intercept</i> from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, a US base in the UK has been eavesdropping on satellite …

Their mission? Make it rain.<p>The project is part of a larger campaign of so-called weather modification techniques that the country has been using since at least 2008, when they claim to have cleared the skies for the Beijing Olympics by forcing the rain to come early.<p>China is far from the only …

The company's Connectivity Lab has designed a laser detector that can bring 2Gbps speeds to wireless communications.<p>Facebook's Connectivity Lab is moving forward in its plan to bring fast, cheap internet to regions of the world with no access to it at all. It's now developed a new detector that …

A new initiative from the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence aims to create an intelligent surveillance system that can analyze live video and spot suspicious behavior in real time. According to <i>Defense One</i>, the research project is called Deep Intermodal Video Analytics (a.k.a. …

When we first wrote about the FBI's Next Generation Identification (NGI) facial recognition system, we said the agency has access to 70 million photos. Turns out the feds can sift through tons more images than that. The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has discovered that the FBI actually …

The FBI steadily, stealthily compiled a massive facial recognition database without oversight and in disregard of federal law, according to a report released today by the Government Accountability Office.<p>The bombshell report reveals that the FBI dipped into driver’s license photo databases from 16 …

Technically Incorrect: Score Assured takes a "deep dive" into all your social-media activity, analyzes the words you use and recommends whether you'll be a good tenant or employee.<p><i>Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.</i><p>Euphemism is beautiful.<p>It …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Civil liberties groups are criticizing an FBI proposal that they say would make it harder for people to know if personal information about them such as fingerprints and iris scans is on file.<p>The FBI is proposing to exempt a large identification database from certain provisions of …

Michael Hayden talks at Hay festival about Edward Snowden and how Facebook, not government, is new privacy battleground<p>British people are not demanding more transparency from the intelligence services as loudly as Americans, the former director of the US National Security Agency (NSA) and CIA has …

So much for US intelligence scaling back its curiosity in the wake of Edward Snowden's leaks. An Office of the Director of National Intelligence transparency report has revealed that the CIA and NSA doubled the number of searches for the content of Americans' communications in an NSA database …

Stanford study shows how details gleaned from telephone ‘metadata’ by National Security Agency pose a threat to privacy of ordinary citizens<p>The mass collection of telephone records by government surveillance programs poses a clear threat to the personal privacy of ordinary citizens, according to US …

Social network went from digital directory for college kids to communications behemoth – and it’s planning for prosperity with its global takeover<p>It’s late afternoon on a blustery spring day on the waterfront at San Francisco’s Fort Mason, a former military base that’s now hired out for corporate …

<b>The Panama Papers.</b> A massive law firm data breach of otherwise secretive financial information identifying numerous high-ranking government and public officials around the world was recently disclosed online by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. (ICIJ). Almost forty years of …

Facebook probably could<p>Facebook isn’t exactly a media company, but that’s like saying the ocean isn’t exactly a shipping company. Both of the former are essential ingredients to the free flow of the latter. Unlike the unsentimental ocean, though, Facebook is an entirely human construct, under human …

Mark Zuckerberg has laid out a 10-year master plan for Facebook. It's bold. It's savvy. And it glosses over a key detail: the dark side of making the world more connected.<p>At F8, the company mega-conference in San Francisco, the 31-year-old CEO delivered a keynote address in which, he said, over the …

Score one for privacy... I guess? The FBI has confirmed to <i>The Guardian</i>that it's accepted new privacy rules for accessing data on American citizens collected by the NSA. The only rub? We don't know <i>what the heck</i> has been changed. In fact, the agency won't even say when the new rules took affect. All …

They kept it open, which puts them on the wrong side of the cyberwar<p>All week, the security world has been puzzling over a newly discovered backdoor into Juniper's VPN software. The software isn't popular, but it's often used for high-security corporate work, making it exactly the kind of software …

Amy Hess, who heads up the agency's Operational Technology Division and the use of technology in investigations, made the admission in a profile published today by the Washington Post.<p>A zero-day is vulnerability in software that has yet to be exploited and the software's maker may not even be aware …

An ISP has released the first unredacted National Security Letter attachment ever made public, exposing just how much access US law enforcement asks for in its secretive letters. In 2004, the FBI requested that Nicholas Merrill and his former ISP, the Calyx Internet Access Corporation, submit …